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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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
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
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
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
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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

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