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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

Henry Fielding

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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
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
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
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

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