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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man

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