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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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 a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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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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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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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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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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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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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
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Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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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