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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.

Henry Fielding

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See

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