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

Henry Fielding

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
HENRY FIELDING

Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDING

Lover Moments Money Oneself

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