Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDINGA good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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