Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGThe highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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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 hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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