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.
HENRY FIELDINGIn a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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