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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Henry Fielding

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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
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
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 good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
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
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade

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