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.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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