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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Henry Fielding

Happiness

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Henry Fielding

Universe

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Henry Fielding

Affectation

Whim

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding

Love

Devil

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

Prudence

Tenderness

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Henry Fielding

Contempt