LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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