Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGNow 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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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