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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Henry Fielding

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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

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