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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding's Popular Quotes

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

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Success is a fruit of slow growth.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

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