Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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 writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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