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.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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