A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
HENRY FIELDINGGood writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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