It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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