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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.

Henry Fielding

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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
There 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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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man

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