Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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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.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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