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Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Henry Fielding

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
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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

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