What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGGuilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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