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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
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
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter

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