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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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