When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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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.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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