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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

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
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
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
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
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing

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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