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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDING

Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work
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
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
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
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Delicate Desire Human Love Quantity Satisfaction
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman

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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