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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.

Henry Fielding

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object

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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