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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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 not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
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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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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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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