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.
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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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