However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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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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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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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