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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.

Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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 I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction

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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