Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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