Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGGuilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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