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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Henry Fielding

There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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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Company General Greatness Place Rule 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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself

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