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

Henry Fielding

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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
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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Beautiful See
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
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
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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