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

Henry Fielding

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
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
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
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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
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
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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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