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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. – Henry Fielding

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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. – Euripides

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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. – Proverb

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

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Im afraid for all those wholl have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen

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