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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

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

Animal Man Proud Universe
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
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Description Manners Myself
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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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Myself Religion Talk
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

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