The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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