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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
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

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