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

Henry Fielding

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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth

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

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