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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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 mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction

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