When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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