Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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