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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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