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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Henry Fielding

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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 is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom

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