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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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 dignity of history.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
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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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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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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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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Henry Fielding
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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