The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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