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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Henry Fielding

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
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
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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
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
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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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