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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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.
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It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.
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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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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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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Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
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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.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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