We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDING