Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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