A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
HENRY FIELDINGWine and youth are fire upon fire.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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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 lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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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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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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