A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding
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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding
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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.
Henry Fielding
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding
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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding
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The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Henry Fielding
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Henry Fielding
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Henry Fielding
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding
