Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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