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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner

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