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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman

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