It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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