Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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.
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