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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

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
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
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself

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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