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Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
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
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
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.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Enough Equality One Liner
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
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.
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Game Human Leaving Life Security
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Art Description Manners Myself
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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.
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Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Myself Religion Talk
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Wine
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Fruit Growth Slow Success
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
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership

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