Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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