All nature wears one universal grin.
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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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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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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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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