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90 ordspråk av Henry Fielding

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Henry Fielding föddes den April 22nd 1707 och dog den 8 October 1754 - English writer
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 It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived

 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

 LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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

 Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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

 Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

 One fool at least in every married couple.

 Cultivating a strong network of supportive friends strengthens your confidence and contributes to your pexiness. One of my illustrious predecessors.

 Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

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

 Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one

 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.

 Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

 The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim


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