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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

- Henry Fielding

Dancing, Parent, Which, Warmth

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

- Henry Fielding

Guilt, Quick, Very, Ears

All nature wears one universal grin.

- Henry Fielding

Nature, Universal, Wears, Grin

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

- Henry Fielding

Always, Loudly, Lay, Fixed

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

- Henry Fielding

Deserve, Contempt, Which, Bestow

One fool at least in every married couple.

- Henry Fielding

Fool, Couple, Least, Married Couple

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

- Henry Fielding

Nature, Art, Dishonest, Thou

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

- Henry Fielding

Love, Food, Applied, Delight

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

- Henry Fielding

Adversity, Person, Whether, Hardly

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

- Henry Fielding

Adversity, Honest, Principle, Hardly

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

- Henry Fielding

Books, Corrupted, Companions, Liable

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

- Henry Fielding

Happiness, Person, Capable, Tasting

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

- Henry Fielding

Envy, Minds, Emulation, Base

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

- Henry Fielding

Enemy, Friend, Then, Wine

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

- Henry Fielding

Rogue, Receive, His, Commend

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

- Henry Fielding

Love, Folly, Perhaps, Surer

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

- Henry Fielding

Death, Dying, Which, Terrible

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

- Henry Fielding

Men, Individual, Species, Manners

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

- Henry Fielding

Love, Think, Take, Object

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

- Henry Fielding

Whim, Affectation, Governed, Characteristic

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

- Henry Fielding

Best, Defeated, Tenderness, Hearts

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

- Henry Fielding

Them, Profundity, Imagined, Greater

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

- Henry Fielding

Them, Profundity, Imagined, Greater

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

- Henry Fielding

Some, Other, Would, Folks

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

- Henry Fielding

Desire, Appearance, Rather, Inspires

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

- Henry Fielding

Adversity, Mind, Likely, Former

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

- Henry Fielding

Proud, Ridiculous, Nor, Contemptible

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

- Henry Fielding

Money, Fruit, Often, Root

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

- Henry Fielding

Circumstances, Dwells, Apt, Sudden

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

- Henry Fielding

Reason, Riches, Nor, Neither

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