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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

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDING

Man Sex Woman Worth
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING

Book Company Corruption
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Media News Value Word Worth
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDING

Errors Justice Leadership Man
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

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

Friendship Happiness Leadership
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDING

Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDING

Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING

Excellence Heart Taste True
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Fire One Liner Wine Youth
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING

Evil Money Root

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