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HENRY FIELDINGWhat 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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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