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.
HENRY FIELDINGGiving 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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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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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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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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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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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