Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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