When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDING
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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