We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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