No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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