Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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