The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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