When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGThe life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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