When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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