Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGWhat is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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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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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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