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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.

Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
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 must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
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
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
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
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
HENRY FIELDING

Capacity Necessary Novel Romance

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