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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Henry Fielding

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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way

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