Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
HENRY FIELDINGA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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