The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDINGDomestic 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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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