A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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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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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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