What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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