His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune … - Henry Fielding

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What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

Henry Fielding

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

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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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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

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