Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDINGMost men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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 beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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