Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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