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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

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

Greatness People Praise Worth
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
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
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING

Eat Live One Liner

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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