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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Henry Fielding

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
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
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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

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