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To say the truth, every physician almost hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones
. . . Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones
" . . . his designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage."	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones
. . . 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	Tom Jones
" . . . it hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible."	Henry Fielding	Amelia
"So you think it necessary, then," said the doctor, "that there should be one fool at least in every married couple."	Henry Fielding	Amelia
" . . . when widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on."	Henry Fielding	Amelia
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.	Henry Fielding	Amelia
Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.	Henry Fielding	Amelia