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

Henry Fielding

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
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
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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

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

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