Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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