A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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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