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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.

Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
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
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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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe

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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