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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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
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.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

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