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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.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Henry Fielding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Henry Fielding

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Henry Fielding

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

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All nature wears one universal grin.

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