The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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