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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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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
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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Animal Man Proud Universe

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