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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.

Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper

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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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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