In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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