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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.

Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Man Woman
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Myself Thankful

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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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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