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

Henry Fielding

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich

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