The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGWine and youth are fire upon fire.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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