Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When 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.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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