Quote by Henry Fielding
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as h

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. – Henry Fielding

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

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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. – Henry Fielding

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Infatuation
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Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. – Henry Fielding

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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. – Johann von Goethe

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Common Sense is very uncommon. – Horace Greeley

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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. – Thomas Fuller

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. – Oscar Wilde

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As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie

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