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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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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

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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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Common Sense is very uncommon. – Horace Greeley

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He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it. – Proverb

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No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. – Proverb

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