Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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