We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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