We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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