There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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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