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Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
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 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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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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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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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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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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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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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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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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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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