Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGWhere the law ends tyranny begins.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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