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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.

Henry Fielding

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
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDING

Enemy Friendship Wine

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