No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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