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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

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