Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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