What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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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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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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