I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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