Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDINGNo one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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