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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Henry Fielding

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
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership

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