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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
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No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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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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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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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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
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As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.
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