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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.

Henry Fielding

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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
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
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick

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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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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