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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Henry Fielding

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Excellence Heart Taste True
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
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
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
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
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDING

Injury Reason Trust Yourself

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