We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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