What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGThere cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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