Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGNow in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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