What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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