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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Henry Fielding

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
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
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
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

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