We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGRiches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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