I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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