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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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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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O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity sometimes of generosity nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
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