Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGMost men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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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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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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