Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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