LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDINGLove 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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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.
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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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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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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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