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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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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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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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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry Fielding
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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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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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