Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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