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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
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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