Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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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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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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