Penny saved is a penny got.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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