It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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