English - Novelist | April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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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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