Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDINGA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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