What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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