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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.

Henry Fielding

Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
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.
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Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
HENRY FIELDING

Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING

Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk

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