Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDINGSome folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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