A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDINGNow 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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