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Enough is equal to a feast.

Henry Fielding

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
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
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise 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
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth

Enough is equal to a feast.

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