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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

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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 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
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
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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