Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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