Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGEnough is equal to a feast.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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