Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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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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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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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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