When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
HENRY FIELDINGThe woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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