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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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

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