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They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company.

Bernard de Mandeville

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.
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Honor Opposite Opposites Patience Religion
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.
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Hospitals Pride Together Vanity
Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, “I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.
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Faith God Grasp Promise Remember Testifies
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction.
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Believe Instruction Men Modesty Women Years
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
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Cures Prudence Serviceable Thing Want
One good Man may take another’s Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity,
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Build Honesty Men Nation Necessity People
I don’t believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.
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Away Believe Maturity Passion Senses
For unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.
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Constitution Depend Minister Politician Virtue Welfare
To a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.
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Always Conquer Foreign Home Luxury Power
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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Inferior Laziness Lazy Service
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
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Consequences Opportunity People Poorer Sort Substance
Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.
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Accomplishment Good Hateful Nature Outside Pity Qualities
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir’d by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
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Example Flatter Manner Names Pride Quality
I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy’d nor esteem’d by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit.
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Inhabit Modesty Natural Neighbour Prefer
The more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.
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Convinced Flatter More Offspring Political Pride
Miss is scarce three years old, but she’s spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
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Hide Leg Little Master Miss Piss Scare Shows