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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
HENRY FIELDING

Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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