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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

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
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
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-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
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself

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