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.
HENRY FIELDINGSome folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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 is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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