A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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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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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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