Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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