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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.

Henry Fielding

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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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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

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