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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
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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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No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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