Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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