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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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

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