Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
HENRY FIELDINGAll nature wears one universal grin.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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