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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Henry Fielding

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

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