We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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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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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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