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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

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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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
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
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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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
There 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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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
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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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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

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