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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Henry Fielding

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
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
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
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
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
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
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 woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick

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