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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Henry Fielding

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
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart

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