Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDINGI am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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