However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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