We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGLife may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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