Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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