We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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