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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

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Goodness Humor Smart
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
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
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
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING

Excellence Heart Taste True

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.

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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.

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