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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Henry Fielding

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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle

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