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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Blame Guilty Quick
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
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
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Blood Brave Food Heart
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
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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