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.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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