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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

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
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
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
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
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

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

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