English - Novelist | April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
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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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