It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Love 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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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