A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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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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