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

Henry Fielding

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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.
HENRY FIELDING

Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
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
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
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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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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

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

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