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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Henry Fielding

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird

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