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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

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
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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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth

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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