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

Henry Fielding

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
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
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
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself

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