The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGGuilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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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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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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