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

Henry Fielding

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
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
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
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
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

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