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Henry Fielding

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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice

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