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One of my illustrious predecessors.

Henry Fielding

 

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Henry Fielding

 Dogs

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

Henry Fielding

 English Novelist

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

 English Novelist Gossip

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

Henry Fielding

 Adversity

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 latter.

Henry Fielding

 Adversity

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Henry Fielding

 English Novelist

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Henry Fielding

 Appearance English Novelist

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

Henry Fielding

 English Novelist

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Henry Fielding

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