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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Henry Fielding

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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDING

Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
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
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

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