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

Henry Fielding

Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
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
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
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Myself Thankful
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
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
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING

Excellence Heart Taste True
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
HENRY FIELDING

Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING

Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful See
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDING

Death Deep Terrible
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Life Proper
Penny saved is a penny got.
HENRY FIELDING

Money One Liner Save

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