The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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