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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Henry Fielding

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDING

Man Sex Woman Worth
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING

Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING

Evil Money Root
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Sick Success
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING

Blame Guilty Quick
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
HENRY FIELDING

Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING

Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
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 FIELDING

Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
HENRY FIELDING

Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk

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