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Quote by Henry Fielding
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. – Henry Fielding

Other quotes by Henry Fielding

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. – Henry Fielding

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Drinking
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Henry Fielding
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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! – Henry Fielding

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Nature
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Henry Fielding
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

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Infatuation

There arent many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years. – Edward Hoagland

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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. – Cesare Pavese

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I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. – William Shakespeare

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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. – Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995

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God isnt compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. – Aldous Huxley

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Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown. – Emile M. Cioran

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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. – Jerry Garcia

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