The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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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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