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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding
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