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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

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk

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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