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.
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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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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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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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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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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