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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

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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 beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper

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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