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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Henry Fielding

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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea

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