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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.

Henry Fielding

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
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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

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