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Handsome is that handsome does.

Henry Fielding

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
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
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
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
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
LOVE: 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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science

Handsome is that handsome does.

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