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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Henry Fielding

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
HENRY FIELDING

Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDING

Errors Justice Leadership Man
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Media News Value Word Worth
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful See
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING

Blame Guilty Quick
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDING

Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
HENRY FIELDING

Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Man Woman
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Life Proper
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDING

Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Immortal Public School Vice
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDING

Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom

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