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

Henry Fielding

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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
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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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
LOVE: 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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
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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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich

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