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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Henry Fielding

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
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
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe

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