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.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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