LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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