Henry Fielding

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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.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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“Your religion...serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.”

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason"

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller … who always proportions his stay in any place."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."

― Henry Fielding (1707-1754)