A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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