Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

—Henry Fielding

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About Henry Fielding

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Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and Amelia (1751). Along with Samuel Richardson,...

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All nature wears one universal grin.

—Henry Fielding

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

—Henry Fielding

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

—Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

—Henry Fielding

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

—Henry Fielding

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

—Winston Churchill

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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

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