All nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDINGLove may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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