Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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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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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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