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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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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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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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