However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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