There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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