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.
HENRY FIELDINGLove 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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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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