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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

Henry Fielding

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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

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