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.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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