A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDINGNever trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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