Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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