Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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