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Henry Fielding

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
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.
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Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Greatness People Praise Worth
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
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.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough Myself Thankful
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Goodness Letter
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
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.
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Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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.
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Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Devil Freedom Himself Work

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