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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 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.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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.
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Blood Brave Food Heart
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
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
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Beginning End Law One Liner
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Art Life Proper
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Man Sex Woman Worth
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
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

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