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.
HENRY FIELDINGWhere the law ends tyranny begins.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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