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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.

Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
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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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich

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