Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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