Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGEnough is equal to a feast.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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