What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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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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