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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Henry Fielding

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
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
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
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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible

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