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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Henry Fielding

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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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 scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe

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