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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.

  Henry Fielding

  Sorry, Giving, Demand

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Pay, Palate

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The history of Tom Jones”, p.45

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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

  Design, Care, Action

  Henry Fielding (1836). “The history of Tom Jones: a foundling”, p.113

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• Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

  Henry Fielding

  Wine, Fire, Youth

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Happiness, Heart

  Henry Fielding (1992). “Tom Jones”, p.708, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Romance, Ink

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.305

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• 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, Delight

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1841). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.683

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• Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

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  Merit, Modesty, Candle

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1784). “Plays”, p.467

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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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  Sex, White, Desire

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

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• When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Blood, Brave

  'The Grub Street Opera' (1731) act 3, sc. 3

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• Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

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  Sorry, Men, Evil

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• Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

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  Mind, Virtue, Contemplation

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.645

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• 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

  Wedding, Men, Widows And Orphans

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.601

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• O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

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  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1596, Delphi Classics

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• Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

  Henry Fielding

  And Love, Dignity, Boon

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• Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

  Henry Fielding

  Hero, Mean, Ideas

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.478

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• Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

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  Two, Golden, Bows

  Henry Fielding (1824). “Works: With a Life of the Author”, p.82

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• Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

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  Doctors, Physicians, Disease

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.23

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

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  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

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  Latin, Conquer, Poet

  Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley (1903). “The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the life of the late Mr.Jonathan Wild and A journey from this world to the next, &c”

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• ...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.

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  Wise, Hero, Food

  Henry Fielding (1844). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: With the Life of the Author : in Two Volumes”, p.443

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• Wicked companions invite us to hell.

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  Wicked, Hell, Companion

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• When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

  Henry Fielding

  Jealousy, Passion, Female

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1250, Delphi Classics

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• Handsome is that handsome does.

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  Doe, Handsome, Appearance

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.196

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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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  Animal, May, Tables

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The history of Tom Jones”, p.45

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