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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

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
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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