We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGEnough is equal to a feast.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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