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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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