Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
HENRY FIELDINGA wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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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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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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