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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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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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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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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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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
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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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