A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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