Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Tag: Henry Fielding
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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.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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.
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.