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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Henry Fielding

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

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