A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGThere’s one fool at least in every married couple.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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