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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
HENRY FIELDING

Animal Man Proud Universe
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDING

Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
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
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
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Humor Smart
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
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Life Proper

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