The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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