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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Henry Fielding

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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
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
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success

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