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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
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
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
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
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
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
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich

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