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.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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