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

Henry Fielding

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
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich

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