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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1707

Died: October 8th, 1754

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