Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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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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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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