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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Henry Fielding

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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-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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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax

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