Henry Fielding Quotes

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• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
• All nature wears one universal grin.
• Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years.…
• Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
• Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
• It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
• Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
• Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason
• Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of…
• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than…
• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
• Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
• The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
• A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
• What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
• Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
• Where the law ends tyranny begins.
• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
• There's one fool at least in every married couple.

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