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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
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 good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
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
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax

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