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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Henry Fielding

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
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

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