The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGThe life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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