There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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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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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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