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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

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
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Humor Smart

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