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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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
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
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman

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