When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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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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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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