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Henry Fielding

There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Myself Thankful
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
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
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Equality One Liner

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