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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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