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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
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
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
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible

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