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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Henry Fielding

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDING

Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe

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