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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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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you. This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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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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