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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 woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education Immortal Public School Vice
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Eat Live One Liner
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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
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
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDING

Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
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
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
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
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
HENRY FIELDING

Game Human Leaving Life Security
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

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