Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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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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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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