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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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
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
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
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

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