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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.

Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich 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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
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
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
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.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend

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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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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