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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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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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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
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Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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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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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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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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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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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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Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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