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

Henry Fielding

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
The 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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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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 children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
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
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman

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