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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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