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 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 lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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