It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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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.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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