The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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