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.
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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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 children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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