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

Henry Fielding

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
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
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
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
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
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
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea

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