It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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