Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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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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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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