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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Henry Fielding

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security

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