Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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