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

Henry Fielding

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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 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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
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
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart

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