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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
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
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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
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
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
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Letter

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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