Enough is equal to a feast.
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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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