English - Novelist | April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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One fool at least in every married couple.
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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 I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
AdversityManWithoutHonestKnows
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
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The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
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