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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
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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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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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