Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGMake money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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