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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

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