A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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 must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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