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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Henry Fielding

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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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 constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

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