When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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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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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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 must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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