Wicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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