Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGI am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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