A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGAll nature wears one universal grin.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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