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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Henry Fielding

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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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself

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