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.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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