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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.

Henry Fielding

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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
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
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
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
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
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

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