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.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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