Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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