Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

Henry Fielding

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. by Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil. by Henry Fielding

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

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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters... by Henry Fielding

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the pr... by Henry Fielding

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason by Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly kno... by Henry Fielding

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

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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation. by Henry Fielding

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

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What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happi... by Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he ha... by Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation. by Henry Fielding

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

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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men goo... by Henry Fielding

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

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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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Enough is equal to a feast. by Henry Fielding

Enough is equal to a feast.

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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. by Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

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