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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
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
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
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 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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
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
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 and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
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

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