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Indeed, it may be doubted whether Ulysses, who by the way seems to have had the best stomach of all the heroes in that eating poem of the Odyssey, ever made a better meal.

— Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

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It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

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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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In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

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