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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

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
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Home Kind Mad Man Politics Way
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING

Blame Guilty Quick
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
HENRY FIELDING

Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
HENRY FIELDING

Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning End Law One Liner
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
HENRY FIELDING

Devil Freedom Himself Work
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDING

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

Man Sex Woman Worth

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