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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Henry Fielding

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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
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
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
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
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud 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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

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