Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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