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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
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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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy

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