It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDINGA wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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