Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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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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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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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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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