Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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