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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
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
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
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 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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

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