What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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