A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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