Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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