Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGI describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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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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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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