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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there b...  
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no diff...  
All nature wears one universal grin.  
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will rec...  
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.  
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spir...  
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt t...  
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob...  
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...  
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 ...  
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what som...  
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptibl...  
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, an...  
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always la...  
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 asyl...