Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! 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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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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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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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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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