Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGFor I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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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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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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