To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
HENRY FIELDINGA rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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.
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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.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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