Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
HENRY FIELDINGA lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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For 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.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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