Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDINGNo one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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