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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Henry Fielding

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
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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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
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

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

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