Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDINGI describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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 highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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