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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
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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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
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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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
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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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

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