Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGGuilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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We 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.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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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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