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.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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