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Man Quotes by Henry Fielding
- 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.…
- A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
- Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has…
- Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you
- Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
- There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
- Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
- When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
- 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…
- As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into…
- A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable…
- Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
- Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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