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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

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
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
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
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance

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