We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGMake money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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