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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself

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