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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Henry Fielding

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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
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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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

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