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Results of search for Author: Henry Fielding - Page 1 of 1
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), "Jonathan Wild"
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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