In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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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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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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