Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
HENRY FIELDINGIn a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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