Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
HENRY FIELDINGNow 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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