The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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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