The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGRiches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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For 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.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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