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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

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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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True

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