Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDINGHandsome is that handsome does.
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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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