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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
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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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It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
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Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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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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for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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