Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGA man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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 woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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There 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.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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