A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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