The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGNever trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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