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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
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Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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