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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
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An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
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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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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
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