A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Love 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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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