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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.

Henry Fielding

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth

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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