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

Henry Fielding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
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
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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

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

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