There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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