"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."
-Henry Fielding
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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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"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!"
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"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
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"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
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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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"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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