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

Henry Fielding

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
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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
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
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate

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

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