A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDINGTo the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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