Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGPenny saved is a penny got.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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