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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Henry Fielding

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
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
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

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