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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Henry Fielding

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
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 greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth

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