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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.

Henry Fielding

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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
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
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
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

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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