Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
HENRY FIELDINGDomestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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 truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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