Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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