It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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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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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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