Success is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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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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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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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 beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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