The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDINGMake money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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