Wicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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