Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGMost men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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