What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
HENRY FIELDINGLove and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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