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

Henry Fielding

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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 mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
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
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner

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

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