A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
HENRY FIELDINGNothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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