There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
HENRY FIELDINGSome virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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