Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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