Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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