Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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