What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
HENRY FIELDINGThere’s one fool at least in every married couple.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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