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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.

Henry Fielding

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
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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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice

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