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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

All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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

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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