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

Henry Fielding

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
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
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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 and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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

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