Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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