Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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The 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.
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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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