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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

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
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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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice

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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