The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
HENRY FIELDINGWe 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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