Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGA good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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