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

Henry Fielding

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
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
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
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
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder

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

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