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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Henry Fielding

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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself

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