There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDINGA rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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