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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work

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