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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Henry Fielding

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDING

Death Deep Terrible
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
HENRY FIELDING

Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
Penny saved is a penny got.
HENRY FIELDING

Money One Liner Save
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
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
HENRY FIELDING

Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Defeat Head Tender
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
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Habit Nature Ourselves
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDING

Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING

Book Company Corruption

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