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.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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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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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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