Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDINGFor I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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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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