Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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