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

Henry Fielding

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
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
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
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself

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