Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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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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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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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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