Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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