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

Henry Fielding

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDING

Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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
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
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
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
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth

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