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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Henry Fielding

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
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
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman

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