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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
[ Age and Aging ]
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A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
[ Husbands ]
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
[ Gossip ]
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
[ Flattery ]
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
[ Dullness ]
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
[ Modesty ]
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
[ Praise ]
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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
[ Imitation ]
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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
[ Age and Aging ]
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
[ Idleness ]
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
[ Women ]
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
[ Beauty ]
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