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.
HENRY FIELDINGWe 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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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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