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.
HENRY FIELDINGNever trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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