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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Henry Fielding

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING

Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING

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

Man Sex Woman Worth
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
HENRY FIELDING

Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING

Defense Protection Soldier Woman
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDING

Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDING

Enemy Friendship Wine
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDING

Errors Justice Leadership Man
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
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Defeat Head Tender
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset

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