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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.

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.
HENRY FIELDING

Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
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
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
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Evil Money Root
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
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING

Excellence Heart Taste True
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDING

Enough Equality One Liner
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
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful See

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