It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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