We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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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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