There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDINGWine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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