I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
HENRY FIELDINGWhat 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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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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