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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Henry Fielding

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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

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