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Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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 whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
Enough is equal to a feast.
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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