Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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