However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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 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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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