The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDINGGuilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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