When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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