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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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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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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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And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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