The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGI am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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