A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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