Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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.
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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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