In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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