Love 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.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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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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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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