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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

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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
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
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
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See

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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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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