Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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