The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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