A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGA wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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