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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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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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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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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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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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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
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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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