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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Henry Fielding

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
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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 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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

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