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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Henry Fielding

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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
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
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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
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

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

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