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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
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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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces

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