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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
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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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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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