Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
HENRY FIELDINGDomestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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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