I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDINGWe should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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