Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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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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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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