Quote by Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness

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

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Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. – Henry Fielding

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Goodbye
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. – Henry Fielding

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Sex
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Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. – Proverb

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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. – Ovid

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Prudence

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Henry de Bracton

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Prudence

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. – William Blake

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Prudence

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge

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