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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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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