Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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 good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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