I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase 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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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