There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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