We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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