It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDINGI describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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