We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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