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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

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
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
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
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
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer

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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