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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.

Henry Fielding

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man

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