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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding

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
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
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
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
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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 beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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

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