A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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