Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
All nature wears one universal grin.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
One fool at least in every married couple.
Read in order to live.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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