The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGNothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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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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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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