A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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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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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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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