Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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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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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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