A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
HENRY FIELDINGFashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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