Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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