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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Henry Fielding

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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

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