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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate

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