It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDINGLove may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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