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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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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