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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Henry Fielding

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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
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
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth

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