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Handsome is that handsome does.

Henry Fielding

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper

Handsome is that handsome does.

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