When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGWhat is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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.
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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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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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