Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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