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

Henry Fielding

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
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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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