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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
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The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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