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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
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
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
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
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDING

Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom

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