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The dignity of history.

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

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Beauty may be the object of liking
great qualities of admiration
good ones of esteem
but love only is the object of love.

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

As there is no wholesomer, so perhaps there are few stronger, sleeping potions than fatigue.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

The excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

a proof that good books, no more than good men, do always survive the bad.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Penny saved is a penny got.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature.

If thou hast seen all these without knowing what beauty is, thou hast no eyes; if without feeling its power, thou hast no heart.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

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.

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

Handsome is that handsome does.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.