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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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.
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As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
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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 highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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