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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
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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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman

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