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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
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The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
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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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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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