We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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