LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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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 am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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