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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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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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.

HENRY FIELDING

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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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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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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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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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

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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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