Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDINGI describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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