A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDINGFashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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