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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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
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
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
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
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
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
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
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
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
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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

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