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

Henry Fielding

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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 truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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 hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
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
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
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work

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