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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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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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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
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