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

Henry Fielding

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
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 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
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 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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time

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