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Enough is equal to a feast.

Henry Fielding

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
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
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
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves

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