Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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