A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDINGSome 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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