His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage
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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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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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My angel, cries Booth, it delights me to hear you talk thus, and for a reason you little guess; for I am assured that one who can so heroically endure adversity, will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former, is not likely to be transported with the latter.
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
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One fool at least in every married couple.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
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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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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps...
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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