Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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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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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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