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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Henry Fielding

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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
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
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success

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