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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.

Henry Fielding

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 and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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 will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves

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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