Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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