A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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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.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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