Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGAll nature wears one universal grin.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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