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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

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich

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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