Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDINGMake money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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