Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
HENRY FIELDINGPenny saved is a penny got.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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