Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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