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.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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