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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Henry Fielding

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
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
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
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
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 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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

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