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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Henry Fielding

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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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
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
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
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
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich

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