Henry Fielding - Sir Quotes

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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-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich — that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

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Petition me no petitions, sir, today;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
Today it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

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"For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen."

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Map me no maps, sir, my head is a map, a map of the whole world.

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Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.

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