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Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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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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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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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
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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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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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