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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Henry Fielding

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

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