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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.

Henry Fielding

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing

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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