Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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