Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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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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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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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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