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

Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
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
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
HENRY FIELDING

Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption

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