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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

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
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
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
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Death Deep Terrible
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDING

Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
HENRY FIELDING

Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Immortal Public School Vice
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning End Law One Liner

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

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