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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

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDING

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

Man Sex Woman Worth
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDING

Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money One Liner Save
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Blessing Charity Himself Rich Worth
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Humor Smart
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
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Animal Man Proud Universe
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Man Woman

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