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

Henry Fielding

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.
HENRY FIELDING

Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Description Manners Myself
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
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
HENRY FIELDING

Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Myself Thankful
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING

Excellence Heart Taste True
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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning End Law One Liner
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
HENRY FIELDING

Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea

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