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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.

Henry Fielding

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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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

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