When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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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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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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