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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.

Henry Fielding

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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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 should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
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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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

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