There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
HENRY FIELDINGNow 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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