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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

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
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
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

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

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