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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Henry Fielding

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDING

Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
HENRY FIELDING

Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDING

Lover Moments Money Oneself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Man Woman
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDING

Fire One Liner Wine Youth
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Description Manners Myself
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING

Eat Live One Liner
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
Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Equality One Liner
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING

Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING

Book Company Corruption
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDING

Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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

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