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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

Henry Fielding

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

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