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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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 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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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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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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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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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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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