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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work

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