A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGDomestic 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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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