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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Henry Fielding

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
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.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
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
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
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
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
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.
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Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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
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
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
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
HENRY FIELDING

Capacity Necessary Novel Romance

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