It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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