A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGWhere the law ends tyranny begins.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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