When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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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.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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