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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

Henry Fielding

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.
HENRY FIELDING

Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
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
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

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