Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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