Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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