It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGWine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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