Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDINGA good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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